Senior Technical Architect I (Enterprise Data Platforms)

Summary

As a member of the Enterprise Data Platforms team, the Technical Architect will play a leading role in proactively analyzing, designing, engineering Network Data and AI/ML platforms and to identify and evaluate future technologies that may have a significant impact on our technology environment and software development processes and to improve our platforms' performance and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a Data and AI/ML platform expert.
• Lead and participate in the analysis, architecture, design and engineering of Data & AI/ML platform technologies and components and provide input to architectural discussions, decisions, and roadmaps.
• Create and maintain end-to-end technology view and roadmap of platform components considering current requirements and anticipated future network data needs.
• Apply technical expertise and leadership in providing technology recommendation based on thorough analysis, industry research and hands on evaluations.
• Work closely with solution providers, product management and other technical and business teams.
• End to end thinking and proactive consideration of various aspects including customer experience, operational support, security and privacy in the design/architecture of platform solutions.
• Ability to bring together cross-functional teams across Network, Information Technology and others to collaborate, design and deliver Use Cases/Solutions that create business value for Bell.
• Decisive Problem Solver: Proactively addresses complex challenges with immediate and effective action.
• Strategic and Adaptable Thinker: Analyzes problems comprehensively, incorporating new information and perspectives to develop innovative solutions.
• Effective and Empathetic Communicator: Tailors communication style and content to resonate with diverse audiences and achieve optimal understanding.
• Highly Adaptable and Resourceful: Quickly masters new situations, demonstrating skillful responsiveness to evolving demands.
• Collaborative Team Builder: Promotes a unified team environment by actively challenging divisive thinking and fostering a shared sense of purpose.
• Dedicated Mentor and Coach: Provides guidance, support, and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their professional growth.

Critical Qualifications

• A Bachelor or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years experience at the solution architecture level.
• Knowledge and expertise in designing and building Data platforms, data warehousing / data analytics solutions such as BigQuery, Teradata and cloud native solutions.
• Knowledge and expertise of open data lakehouse using Apache Iceberg with popular data engines such as Apache Spark or Flink.
• Intermediate working level knowledge of data processing methodologies and tools such as DataProc and Dataflow in GCP, DataStage and Informatica.
• Hands on experience with cloud hyperscalers tools stack such as GCP or AWS.
• Experience with data collection and streaming technologies, e.g. Flume, Apache Kafka, Logstash, Rsyslog
• Knowledge of governance stack, permissions, data lineage e.g. Collibra
• Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Experience securing sensitive applications in a large corporate environment.
• Skilled with SQL and database systems, e.g. Impala, Hive, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, etc.
• Familiarity working with NoSQL databases and unstructured/semi-structured data such as HBase, MongoDB, Couchbase or Cassandra, etc.

Other Critical Qualifications

• Knowledge and practice of consolidation, virtualization and High Availability solutions.
• Exposure to technology tracking and evaluation of new products and solutions.
• Highly analytical skills and ability to work with large and complex technical data sets.
• Ability to work within an agile framework.
• Ability to oversee and work simultaneously on different requirements with a variety of projects and short timelines.
• Self-starter who is comfortable working with and presenting to all management levels.
• Good business acumen to ensure technical solutions are created with business focus.
• Very good analytical capabilities as well as organizational, interpersonal and communication skills are necessary (written, verbal and presentation skills).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the Telecommunications or Media industries.
• Knowledge of TM Forum standard and CDMC framework.
• GCP certified or equivalent.
• Experience using Maven, Git, Jenkins, Se, Ansible or other continuous integration tools.
• Played a leading role in the delivery of multiple end-to-end data platform projects.
• Telecom Operations and Engineering Knowledge including wireless, wireline and media networks.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF.
• Bilingual (French and English).
• Programming/Software Development experience.
• Autonomous and energetic individual.

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